How garbage collectors found this woman's engagement ring in 10,000kg of landfill

A Texas woman was reduced to tears when a collection of garbage men found and returned her engagement ring after she accidentally threw it away.

Nelly Cabeen reveals she binned the ring her husband gave her five years ago due to "miscommunication" and was "devastated" that the garbage had been collected by the time she realised four hours later.

After calling Turkey Creek Landfill, Cabeen was told the chances of finding the ring that meant so much to her were akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

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"I spoke to a lady named Karen [Fuller]– she was so sweet and empathised for me that I had lose something that was so special to me," Cabeen wrote in a Facebook post. "I asked the process of how things were done from kerbside pick-up all the way to landfill… As she's telling me the process, my hears was shattering bit by bit knowing that I would never see my ring again."

Despite her chances being grim, Fuller went to work, revealing the crew would do "what they could to help" but wanted Cabeen to "stay realistic" about the near impossible outcome.

"Her [garbage] was picked up a 9 or 9.30 in the morning and it was already 1.30pm," Fuller explained. "That garbage truck should have already dumped in the landfill and it would have been compacted and crushed."

"Waste connection is very lucky to have Karen, Soto and Adolfo to be apart of your team," Cabeen wrote. (Facebook)

But as luck would have it, the truck driver had gone on his lunch break and the ring was somewhere in 10,000 kilos of garbage in the back of the truck.

"[Karen] touched base with me four different times asking questions about [garbage] bag colour to what the ring looked like," Cabeen said, while the crew, Joseph Soto, Tyler Harwood and Adolfo Calleja, sifted through the garbage looking for a grey bag.

"I opened it up and tossed it over, and I caught a glimpse of a ring," said Calleja, before Fuller delivered the news.

"She sent me a picture of this perfect ring – my engagement ring!" Cabeen recalls. "I was floored they found it. They looked through thousands of pieces of [garbage] to find something special for someone they didn't know."

Nelly Cabeen was overjoyed to see her engagement ring again. (Facebook)

Receiving the ring back, Cabeen was reduced to tears.

"They did not have to do that," she says. "Yet they went beyond their call of duty to help, and for that I am forever thankful. They are my angels."

As for Soto, he feels humbled that he could help another person in need.

"It felt good giving somebody back something that they thought they lost forever," he said.